Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe
Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe

Author: José María Pérez Fernández

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-12-29

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1107080045

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This collection underscores the role played by translated books in the early modern period. Individual essays aim to highlight the international nature of Renaissance culture and the way in which translators were fundamental agents in the formation of literary canons. This volume introduces readers to a pan-European story while considering various aspects of the book trade, from typesetting and bookselling to editing and censorship. The result is a multifaceted survey of transnational phenomena.

Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe
Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe

Author: José María Pérez Fernández

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9781107439320

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"This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following an introduction to the theories and practices of translation in early modern Europe, and to the role played by translated books in driving and defining the trade in printed books, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of translated-book history - language learning, audience, printing, marketing, and censorship - across several national traditions. This study touches on a wide range of early modern figures who played myriad roles in the book world; many of them also performed these roles in different countries and languages. Topics treated include printers' sensitivity to audience demand; paratextual and typographical techniques for manipulating perception of translated texts; theories of readership that travelled across borders; and the complex interactions between foreign-language teachers, teaching manuals, immigration, diplomacy, and exile"--

Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe
Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe

Author: José María Pérez Fernández

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-12-29

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1316123995

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This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following an introduction to the theories and practices of translation in early modern Europe, and to the role played by translated books in driving and defining the trade in printed books, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of translated-book history - language learning, audience, printing, marketing, and censorship - across several national traditions. This study touches on a wide range of early modern figures who played myriad roles in the book world; many of them also performed these roles in different countries and languages. Topics treated include printers' sensitivity to audience demand; paratextual and typographical techniques for manipulating perception of translated texts; theories of readership that travelled across borders; and the complex interactions between foreign-language teachers, teaching manuals, immigration, diplomacy, and exile.

Buying and Selling
Buying and Selling

Author: Shanti Graheli

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 9004340394

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Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade through a variety of sources. Through the combined investigation of printed output, documentary evidence, provenance research, and epistolary networks, this volume trails the evolving relationship between readers and the book trade. In the resulting picture of failure and success, balanced precariously between debt-economies, sale strategies and uncertain profit, customers stand out as the real winners.

International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World
International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World

Author: Matthew McLean

Publisher: Library of the Written Word

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 9789004316447

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International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It explores commercial networks and business strategies, and the translation and circulation of literature, music and drama.

Thresholds of Translation
Thresholds of Translation

Author: Marie-Alice Belle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 3319727729

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This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660). At a time when translation played a major role in shaping English and Scottish literary culture, paratexts afforded translators and their printers a privileged space in which to advertise their activities, display their social and ideological affiliations, influence literary tastes, and fashion Britain’s representations of the cultural ‘other’. Written by an international team of scholars of translation and material culture, the ten essays in the volume examine the various material shapes, textual forms, and cultural uses of paratexts as markers (and makers) of cultural exchange in early modern Britain. The collection will be of interest to scholars of early modern translation, print, and literary culture, and, more broadly, to those studying the material and cultural aspects of text production and circulation in early modern Europe.

Tudor Translation
Tudor Translation

Author: F. Schurink

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230361102

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Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of Tudor England.

International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World
International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World

Author: Matthew McLean

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 9004316639

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International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on several aspects of the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It considers elements of the international book trade, the circulation and collection of texts, the practice of translation and the diffusion and exchange of technical and cultural knowledge. Commercial and logistical aspects of the early modern book trade are considered, as are the relationships between local markets and the internationally-minded firms which sought to meet their expectations. The barriers to the movement of books across borders – political, linguistic, confessional, cultural – are explored, as are the means by which these barriers were surmounted.